Bistline v. Hartwigsen

This action was brought by plaintiffs to recover a year’s rent which they claimed to be due from defendant under the terms of a lease of a tract of land estimated by the parties to the lease to be 90 acres. A copy of the lease was. set out in the complaint, showing the annual rent to be $135. The complaint also alleged that defendant had occupied the land for the full term of three years and had paid for two years in the sum of $270.

The answer of defendant admitted the making of the lease and the other allegations of the -complaint set out above, but denied that the defendant owed the last…